Thank you everyone for the advice. I went back to Sherwin Williams and played with 1 gallon of paint some more. Made it more blue and more purple...less mauve. Got it home and painted the section between the window where I had my "test" shutter and the front door. Put the shutter back up and realized that I didn't like it. It just looked cold and turned grey, but not a good grey. So, we stuck with the mauvish color. With the 2nd coat is was a little bit more muted. We got the shutters/windowboxes etc. back up and it looks pretty good. I think the mauve is still a bit too pink and the shutters could use to be a bit darker (but hubby said no-way to repainting those this year.) But it looks cottagey and inviting to me and that was my goal. The cream that I had before wasn't bad. I might have kept it if it had not been for the school bus yellow house directly next door. My cream just looked like a washed out version of the yellow. I would have liked to have painted my house a light, warm yellow but that obviously wouldn't have worked with bright yellow next door. I'll be posting some pictures as soon as I can get them off the digi cam. For those of you who wondered my colors are all Sherwin Williams. The shutters are Exclusive Plum and the siding is Intuitive.

Using DHs work historic work building for inspiration, I've decided to go with.... - Red Brick house (this color stays! LOL) - All trim Medium-dark slight bluish gray. (not institutional looking). Including window molding, door trim, eaves, etc.. - Sandy-beige, deep warm cream color for door. Now, I've just got to FIND the above mentioned door color. If anyone here knows what I "mean" by the above description, and a good name and brand of paint color, please let me know! Thank you very much! And thanks for the suggestions.

I vote painting the front door cream, just like the trim. The reason is you already have lots of colors on the house: siding color, brick color, trim color, shutter color, and the prominent roof will add another color similar to the shutters. You don't need a sixth color -- too busy. Also, since the door is in shadow, trying to make it pop with a color won't work well as the shadow will muddy the color. You might want to consider using a high gloss for the cream paint, just to give the door some more presence. So cream for color unity & visibility, then design a great, colorful landscape that stretches the whole length of the house. This post was edited by awm03 on Mon, Jun 2, 14 at 11:43

Maybe a navy? For paint. And then paint or replace both the garage and front door to a stained brown. Remove the storm door if you can Some other suggestions if you like, you can skip otherwise: Maybe new lighting , definitely landscape. Possibly enlarge the garage and maybe brick up the walkway. I’m sure you considered some of these ideas... cute house. Has potential. Looking forward to watch it change.